by Sakari | Oct 11, 2021 | Etusivunosto
Hello Friends and friends of Friends! You are warmly welcome to participate in Meeting for Worship. We meet via Zoom every first and third sunday of the month. The time is 13-14 (EET). You can also join us on the last thursdays of the month. Then the time is 19-20 (EET). As usual, you can join our Zoom-session about fifteen minutes before the Meeting starts. This would be a good time to check that Zoom and your connection work properly or to just have a small chat with other participants before the silence. There is an opportunity for discussion and sharing after the Meeting also. You can find the Zoom-link here: Zoom-linkki If Zoom asks for a password, it’s:...
by Ari K | Sep 9, 2021 | Etusivunosto
Friends are also able to meet in Tampere starting from 18 September. The meeting dates for the autumn are: September 18 October 2, 16 and 30 November 13, 27 December 12 The one hour meeting for worship starts at 14:00 at the usual address Kisakentänkatu 18. Please arrive a bit before two and ring the buzzer titled “kerhohuone” by the entry. Warm welcome to...
by Ari K | Sep 4, 2021 | Etusivunosto, Helsinki
As many of us have received both vaccinations by now and the official restrictions allow meetings where there are less than 10 attenders, we look forward to restart the weekly Meetings for Worships at the Pasila Peace Station starting from September 12. The one hour meeting begins at 11am and there’s coffee and tea afterwards. Let’s remember safety first, as always, but we are glad to meet each other again...
by Sakari | Aug 17, 2021 | Etusivunosto, Yleinen
In Quaker’s silent Meeting for Worship we gather to just sit together in God’s presence and listen to the whispers of the Spirit in our hearts. Sometimes these whispers inspire us to minister to others, vocally or in some other form. God’s Spirit can speak to us in so many ways. It can be thoughts and words or it can be images, sensations, feelings, colours, sounds, movement… In Ecstatic Dance we surrender to our body and let it move us…The rational mind quiets down and gives way to the music and the dance that arises naturally.. so the Spirit can move us in this way, too! We’ll meet at Zoom and start our Meeting for Worship by dancing to a shared playlist for 1-1,5 h, then continue the Worship in the Silence for a bit longer. You are welcome to share in any language and anyone can help out by translating each other’s words when needed, and when there’s no translation we can try to feel and listen to the Divine behind the message even if our brain doesn’t understand the words. Warmly welcome! IMPORTANT: The guidelines for Ecstatic dance, adapted to online setting: THE DANCE FLOOR IS A NON-VERBAL SPACE We join together to create a safe and sacred space for movement. Eliminating talking on the dance floor allows us to move out of our heads and into our bodies, hearts, and souls. We leave behind the words and worries of the day and connect with spirit and one another in new ways. THE DANCE FLOOR IS A PLACE OF RESPECT AND SAFETY...
by Aino V | Jan 2, 2021 | Etusivunosto, Yleinen
Dear Friends. The city of Helsinki has witnessed new kind of problems faced by those who are addicted to alcohol and/or drugs. Coronavirus has forced the social services to shut down the facilities that provide food and the possibility to wash oneself. The addicted and the homeless are hungry, which increases their substance abuse and overall poor health. Many of those living on the street need emergency aid which is harder and harder to find. Quakers will gather donations for these people during Christmas, New Year and the beginning of the year 2021. The donations will go to the Salvation army. We will add fifty cents to every euro donated through us, the maximum limit of overall donations treated this way being 2000 euros. You can give your donation to our bank account: FI57 8020 0710 2249 98 (Danske Bank). The message to attach to your donation: “Ruoka-apu” (food aid). Fundraising permit:...
by Aino V | Dec 15, 2020 | Etusivunosto
At the darkest moment, Winter Solstice, of this year that has been strange and challenging to many of us, let’s celebrate the turn towards lighter times by gathering in silence and dance in a sacred virtual space that we create together ! In Quaker’s silent Meeting for Worship we gather to just sit together in God’s presence and listen to the whispers of the Spirit in our hearts. Sometimes these whispers inspire us to minister to others, vocally or in some other form. God’s Spirit can speak to us in so many ways. It can be thoughts and words or it can be images, sensations, feelings, colours, sounds,...
